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- 2Samson, J. C.
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2009
Kabin, Konstantin, Liu, Wenlong, Ergun, Robert, Angelopoulos, Vassilis, Elkington, Scot R., Glassmeier, Karl-Heinz, Li, X., Sarris, T. E., Bonnell, John, Auster, Hans-Ulrich
The THEMIS five-probe constellation was launched in 17 February 2007 to study substorms; however its instrumentation and the alignment at distances <1RE among some of the THEMIS probes, particularly in the first period of its mission, provides unique opportunities to study ULF pulsations in the...
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2016
Turkakin, Hava, Rankin, Robert, Mann, Ian R.
The emission of propagating MHD waves from the boundaries of flow channels that are unstable to the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in magnetized plasma is investigated. The KHI and MHD wave emission are found to be two competing processes. It is shown that the fastest growing modes of the KHI...
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2008
Kabin, Konstantin, Rankin, Robert, Sydorenko, Dmytro
A two-dimensional nonlinear multi-fluid MHD model of the ionosperic Alfven resonator is presented. The resonator is excited by a packet of shear Alfven waves propagating downward toward the ionosphere from high altitudes. It is shown that the nonlinear (ponderomotive) force of standing...
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1997
Samson, J. C., Rankin, Robert, Voronkov, I., Tikhonchuk, V. T.
The effect of the ponderomotive force (PF) on the temporal evolution of shear Alfven field line resonances (FLRs) is considered for a magnetic dipole geometry appropriate to the Earth's magnetosphere. We derive a set of equations which describes the coupling of shear Alfven and slow mode waves...
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1993
Frycz, P., Samson, J. C., Rankin, Robert
Using a compressible, three-dimensional resistive monohydrodynamic (MHD) computer simulation code, we examine the evolution of standing wave field line resonances (FLRs) in the nightside of the Earth's magnetosphere. The MHD code that is used allows for a full nonlinear description and enables us...